Massive 364-Foot Taekwon V Statue Will Crush Puny Humans

Alright, if us Americans were to build a robot to represent for our country, who would we build? And no talking about past plans for Michael Jackson walking about in the Nevada desert with lasers. That shit does not count.

Also, if these countries really wanted to, why couldn't they just build fully functioning robot replicas, so that they can be alive and easily controlled? Well, besides financial reasons, of course.

Now they needs ones for the Robotech VF-1 and Voltron (lion and vehicle).

@Fatty Shcock:

Dere is no qvestion. We vill build a Terminator robot.

ka1axy

C'mon Korea, you keep whining and bitching about Japan's everything from colonism to some farking islands you don't really care about or need.
But to do this, just because arch enemny Jland did a Gundam statue, you got to run out and build yourself a .... what, isn't that a copy of some Japanese robot? WTF? Korea, you must get some original ideas of your own, I mean the moving metal print machine was cool. Or wait, you guys copied the Chinese on that one too.....

YolandaMontufar

I'll get flamed by Koreans but here it goes. Korea has always been trying to "one up" Japan and China for decades. They're also notorious for "borrowing" from Chinese and Japanese culture and claiming it their own. Hell a year ago they were claiming that Confucius was Korean.

sm753

@Fatty Shcock: Megas XLR

@Fatty Shcock: THE GREAT MAZINGA!

RealTomatoKetchup

@rogsim: Everyone knows that Voltron only consisted of lions. (and yes they're metal)

headc4se

Sadly, after the failed "Pink Goo" Statue of Liberty experiment, the US has continued to lag in the Giant Frakkin' Robot arms race. It is a sad day when our best hope for a Giant Frakkin' Robot is Michael Bay.

@Fatty Shcock: It'd either be one of the following:

Optimus Prime
T-1000
Bender
Random Giant Sex Bot
Johnny 5

I'm hoping for Johnny 5 more than anything else.

Frank Mahnke

@Fatty Shcock: Optimus Prime for the US. Also, do you really want a giant robot war on our hands?

North Star

Sure it's only a "Statue". Riiiiight. We are toast.

@YolandaMontufar: Wow, that's some pretty heavy Korea-hate. Did a Hyundai run over your dog or something?

gotta fight/scare those pesky north koreans. Nukes? Pwfah! We got here some mecha!

kitsuneconundrum

I'm still waiting for Eva Unit 01.

What a bootleg-ass version of Mazinger Z. Can't the Koreans do anything original. Maybe a lifesized Starcraft base or somthing.

sharked

@zeroprime: I agree with you: Thank you!!! Thank you a thousand times!!! I've been trying to remember the name of that cartoon for months.

@sm753: MIGHT be true , but i love the korean focus on design. chinese and japanese products are bloated with too much text and pictures... while koreans keep their product simple and nice...
(im chinese btw)

Osvaldo Jiang

@sharked: Riiight. Because the hallmark of giant mecha cartoons is originality.

Soon to be neighbors...Eva unit01 and Escaflowne

@Fatty Shcock: Sentinel !

rockmanx9

@Fatty Shcock: Are you guys all crazy? Only one robot can be king here in the States

@trevisol: They took him to the vet, but he Hyundied

@Fatty Shcock: Shame on everybody. GIANT Robocop or Optimus Prime as the lad below me said

@Kaiser-Machead: *respectful golf clap* Well played.

@Fatty Shcock: The Foreigner! He's not from here!

This is the one I'm really waiting for:

@Fatty Shcock: How about The Statue of Liberty.. not the French version, but one of a COD4 Operative.... or better yet... the robot from Iron Giant.

Dethzilla

@OMG! Ponies!:

@Frank Mahnke: Bender. +1

@Fatty Shcock: How do you know it's NOT fully functional. Maybe that's Korea's way of secretly building a super weapon. Hidden in plain sight!

@Fatty Shcock: ... I'm gonna have to go with Iron Giant or Sentinel.

... but I would prefer that the Sentinel have his booming robot voice from the 90s cartoon if we decide to make him.

Let's face it, they needed SOMEWHERE to hide the Megazord!

@zeroprime: I agree with you: /slow clap

@geiko: +1

Gordon McAlpin

@Saboth: Micheal Bay has touched him. He is now dirty!

@North Star:

Optimus Prime is clearly the only real choice.

Saboth

This can only mean:

Supa Robo Taisen!!!

ShreemayiDuck

I think we have more to worry about from China. They've managed to capture 2 Primes from different dimensions.
I think when a country has control of sentient alien robots who have been around since before the dinosaurs roamed the earth. Any man-kind made robot doesn't stand a chance. America must find Megatron now!!!

in2uition

Is anybody else even moderately concerned that these things will spring to life one day and join forces to wreak deadly havoc on their ugly American neighbors across the sea?

HunterMus

@geiko: Michael Bay is equally dirty for touching himself. Rumor has it he makes explosion sound effects when he does it. Creepy stuff.

@HunterMus: Ditto!

electronymous

@Saboth: Unfortunately, Optimus Prime, despite being embraced by a generation of American kids, is not an American robot. Just a carbon copy of a Japanese cartoon, slightly repackaged for American consumption during the boom of 80s Japanese animation imports. He's still awesome, but not 100% uniquely American in conception and execution.

@Kaiser-Machead: Booo! Hissss!

all i can say is Mazinger Z, would kick the crap out of ths piece of shit korean junk

Miguel Henriquez

It's awesome on so many levels..

--Core--

@jibbly: I have my own customs! Look at my crazy passport!

can we (the USA) finally quit funding their national defense ? seriously, the S koreans have better internet then the U.S. and now they have money for giant robots.... really ?

maybe they should be spending a few more dollars on tanks and jets instead of giant fake robots... just a thought.

jeremycobert

@YolandaMontufar: I am a Korean and I agree. Taekwon V copying Mazinger Z was shameless enough. Now they are copying the robot statue idea.

nutmac

@Fatty Shcock: Liberty Prime will crush the Chinese Communists.

@met2art: This is correct. Optimus prime is a Japanese robot and out of the question.

tzakiel

Who's going to build SDF-1?

Number51X

Would be awesome to see it fall flat on its face. BOOOM! A real-life anime. Heehee.

@kitsuneconundrum: Who wants to bet that North Korea will take it as a real threat?

taodude

@Fatty Shcock: A giant Sam Jackson!

electronymous

I don't know, it sure seems like a good hiding place for some kind of secret weapon if you ask me.

maven2k

No flash photography!!!

@Fatty Shcock: It's...Megamaid...she's a Transformer!

I can't wait to see the news, "Giant Robots save Japanese economy". Or is that destroy?

ThisDudeRufus

Can we please build a 500ft Sentinel facing west somewhere on Hawaii? It would incorporate a missile defense system that fires from the robot's extended middle fingers.

jbownsabmw- Koopas Beware

And when America starts building Liberty Prime, we know something has gone wrong.

Gormania

So, does Taekwon V know Taekwondo?

silverdee

@Osvaldo Jiang: Chinese guy with a Spanish/Mexican name? Hurray for globalization!

silverdee

@in2uition: You mean NBE-1, right?

silverdee

@Number51X: I want to see VF-1S Skull Leader transform!

silverdee

Looks damn awesome. I wish they make more of these statues all over. I'll visit Korea just see this. I hope it can do different poses than just standing up like that though. very nice.

Won Choi

That's looking awesome~ I wish they make more of these giant statues all over the world. I'll visit Korea just see this thing:)

Won Choi

@Frank Mahnke: I suggest the pharaonic version of Bender. Visible from the space FTW.

@Dr.Danger: ::You are awesome:: Oh god no! Any Evangelion unit will result in the entire human race being reduced to goo!

Asian countries are in a pissing contest for the biggest replica robot now? What's next? the real thing? It. has. begun...

Invisible-Echidna

@Pessimipposaurus: Awesome. +1 to your sir. I like it.

met2art

OK..The US needs a Voltron statue now. That should even things out.

@jeremycobert: Jealous much?

@Fatty Shcock:

Brett Benedict

@jeremycobert: See, my thought was that maybe we should be spending a few more dollars on giant fake robots instead of tanks and gets...

Everybody knows the Statue of Liberty is the first Giant Mecha Statue.

Raw_fishFood

There is no other option:
Japan must construct a 1:1 statue of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.

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